More from Albert Schweitzer

  1. Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
  2. The ethical ideas on which civilization rests have been wandering about the world, poverty-stricken and homeless. No theory of the universe…
  3. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
  4. Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for…
  5. The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
  6. The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universa…
  7. The African is my brother - but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
  8. Resignation as to knowledge of the world is for me not an irretrievable plunge into a scepticism which leaves us to drift about in life lik…

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